By Monica

Hey, everyone. I’m the new home schooling mom here at Homeschool Hacks, so I best be neighborly and introduce myself.

I’m Monica, mom of four – Susan, 10, Peter, 8, Edmund, 6, and Lucy, 3. (If you recognize where I ripped those names, you and I will get along just fine.) We home school. Or to be completely truthful: I force my school-age children to memorize math facts and Latin flash cards.

In the summer time.

Yup, I’m that hard core.

Now that I’ve introduced myself, and we’re getting to be friends, I want to share my All-Time Favorite Home Schooling Link. Get ready to take notes, home schooling moms, cause this one is for you.

This is a link for all of us who aspire to be more than “just a home schooling mom.”

Susan Wise Bauer. We classical home schoolers know her from her popular book The Well-Trained Mind. Dig a little deeper and you learn more. She’s still writing home schooling books. She’s a pastor’s wife, a college professor. And she home schools too. Is there anything she can’t do?

Why is Bauer the subject of my favorite link for home schoolers? Because as a home schooling mom I want to teach my kids and still do other things that interest me. And I consistently beat myself up when I can’t be the Super Home School Mom I want to be.

So how does Susan do it all? Want to know? Read this interview – pay close attention to the middle when the interviewer asks, “How do you get it all done?” I love the answer. I hope you find this link as encouraging as I do.